Missing Cargo Ship Found

[Lee]

Isn't that the guy from Stephen King's "The Stand"

[seeker_two]

Something tells me he doesn't need a flashlight at night... 

...or that he'll have many nights left.....

[RevDisk]

That's one of the scariest looking dudes I've seen in a while.

What's so scary about a kid who had a more advanced nuclear program in his mother's shed than say, Iran probably has at the moment?   

Dude soaked up a lot of rads.  Buddy of mine up in Michigan swears you can pick up where he's been with a Geiger counter for a couple hours after he walks through.  I really wouldn't want to be the guy guarding him.

[Viking]

Bit of an update here: The plot thickens. Michail Voitenko, who've been the source for quite a bit of the information regarding this debacle has left Russia, apparently at the suggestion by "some serious guys" who felt that he could use a 3-4 month vacation someplace else.
Also, a new theory that's making it's way around the net is that the ship was hi-jacked by Israeli intelligence in an effort to grab a cargo of missiles heading either for Syria or Iran...

[Waitone]

Here is a report from a group that goes good work and some really bad work.
http://homelandsecurityus.com/?p=2994  Part 1
There is a part 2 somewhere.

[RocketMan]

According to intelligence reports following the alleged disappearance of the vessel - reports independently confirmed by this author through direct inquiries with U.S. and Israeli intelligence sources, the “repairs” were not repairs at all, but a very extensive project that involved completely dismantling and rebuilding the ship’s bulkhead to special military-like specifications.

How many bulkheads are there on an oceangoing ship?  The answer is "many".  It is bad reporting like this that raise my hackles and causes me to discount the rest of the story.  "...the ship's bulkhead..." is not the kind of thing you'd hear reported by a supposed shipping security expert.
That particular "bulkhead" snippet was repeated in more than one story about this incident in the MSM.

[Waitone]

Evidently ships hauling military cargo need modifications to bulkheads within the ship.  I assume it has to do with passage modifications and hatch designed to handle odd and big shapes.  What caught my interest in the story was the modification of bulkhead(s) as it brought to memory another famous ship which had undergone similar modifications.  The Lusitania.

[RocketMan]

My concern was over the reporting of bulkhead in the singular, by a supposed expert.  I saw this in more than one report.  It kind of detracts from the credibility of the story, IMO.